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Getting Annoyed at Your Noisy Neighbor? Spiders Are, Too. New Research Finds They’ll Build Webs Differently in Loud Conditions
In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...
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Why Brown Recluse Spider Webs Look So Different (& How To Identify One In Your Yard)
tubular structure (the human equivalent of a bunker), safely backing inside if the need arises. To know for sure whether your ...
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Spiders adapt their webs to filter out human-made noise
The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.
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Nanofibrils study successfully measures strength of spider web 'super fibers'
"Or a shield around a structure where you have something incoming at high velocity and you need to absorb a lot of energy. Things like that." Spider web strands may seem simple to the casual ...